The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-04
THE SCOTS WILL Try AGAIN.
a New Challenger for the Cup--Charles
Sweet, of New York, VIII Build a
Second-Class Cutter.

defeat become an historical fact than the
prospect of new challenge from Scotland
| began to be talked about, first as a posi-
bility, secondly as a probability, thirdly as
a certainty. There is no longer any doubt
that there will be another Scottish Richard
in the field next year. Late last night 1t be
came generally known among members of
the New York Club that Charles Sweet had
| resigned from it in order to be able to chal-
! lenge for the cup, and that he had already
given Secretary Bird preliminary notice
of his intention, similar to what the unsuc-
cessful Scottish syndicate gave last year.
| Mr.. Sweet is marine lawyer of consd-
cradle repute on both sides of the Atlantic,
| He has Offices in This city at No. Is Broad
street, and in London, and he personally
practices and spends most of his time i'll
New York, where he boarded at the Hotel
Shelburn, at Thirty-siXth street and Fifth
avenue. In Britain his business is known
as that of Admiralty lawyer" He
| has had successful legal career, and is a
man of considerable means, who, first
! adopting yachting as a recreation, became
| known far and wide in yachting circles as
the owner of the whilom invincible twenty
| ton cutter Clara.
THE NEW CHALLENGER AN AYR MAN.
Mr.. Sweet is a Scotchman, mailing from
| the town of Ayr, i'll the land of Burns, and
sung of by the Scotch poet as
Aud Ayr whom ne'r toun surpasses,
For honest men and bonnie lasseS."
Though he has considerable American in
terestS he has not become naturaliZed, and
i'll addition to being until this contingency
a member of the New York Yacht Club. he
is on the roster Of the Royal Thames, Royal
Northern, and Royal Clyde yacht cubs. He
was until the force of circumstances led to
heterodoxy, true believer in the Thistle,
and one of her most enthusiastic supporters.
He told his friends in the New York Yacht
Club that they would have the pleasure of
seeing her stern every time she raced and
the measure of his disappointment can there
fore be gagged by the measure of his fer
vor. But as soon as he saw that his hopes
were not to be realized in his favorite, he
conceived the idea of himself becoming
Scotland'S champion, and challenging for
the Americas cup.
MR.. FYFE WILL BE THE DESIGNER.
The notice he gave Secretary Bird stated
his intention of building a cutter to com
pete next year. The man whom he natur-
ally has chosen to design her is the designer
of the successful Clara, William Fyfe, Jr
of Fairlie, Scotland, who is now in this
country and sailed on the Thistle in her
races. 1t is probable, though it is not yet
quite certain, that the new cutter will be a
second class one, and in her lines be an am
plitication of the Clara. There are MANY
reasons for hoping for success from such a
design, not the least important being that
the Clara is able to carry more
sail in proportion to her displacement
than any known cutter. OF course
deeison ON Mr. Sweets part to
have a second class cutter will put the Vol
unteer out of the question as a defender of
the cup. At least, the entry of a boat Cd
her size against one of such a size as say the
Ttania, while not debarred is scarcely
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adverse comment in yachting circles Ac-
cording to the conditions under which the
cup is sailed for any boat over thirty tons
is eligible. For the new contestant forty
tons is the probable size.
The finding of a suitable boat to meet
her is, therefore, matter of intense inter
est among yachtSmen, and after the nine
days wonder of the new challenge has
ceased, surmise on this point will not I'M
likely give place to fact
WHAT A NEW YORK CLUB MEMBER SAID.
A member of the New York Yacht Club.
in talking the matter over with a Tribune
reporter, commended Mr. Sweets discretion
in proposing to have a boat of the second
class type.
Mr. Sweetis Scotch enough, and there
fore shrewd enough" he remarked, ito see
where his best opportunity of victory lies.
He knows that our Second-clasS sloops are
''What about the Papoose" remarked
bystander.
There may be chance now of letting
her have a show of her qualities"
Among the "hying rumOrs" last night
was one that mentioned the name of Oliver
lselin, of the Titania as probable owner of
the cup defender against Mr. Sweets cutter
A few days ago paragraph appeared stat
ing that Mr.. Iselin wished to dispose of the
Titania and build another second class
sloop; and if the new second-clasS sloop
turns out anything good it may stand a
first-rate chance of meeting the Fyfe-de-
signed cutter.
GEN. PAINE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE
WILL DO.
Gen. Paine was seen at the rooms of the
New York Yacht Club Just before he left
them in order to catch the 1890 train for
Boston. He was asked if he had heard any
thing of the new challenge, and replied in
the negative.
would you build boat to meet the cut
ter talked Off was next asked.
That Is a question for the future he
replied in his usual quiet manner.
Mr.. Sweets resignation from the New
York Yacht Club, it is well TO note, is not a
necessity because of his intention to COM
pete. The fact of his being a member of
that club does not debar him. as member
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nected from challenging for the cup, but he
has considered that to resign, at least tenn
porarily, is best both as matter of cour-
tesy and expediency The new cutter will
be built of steel. so that she may carry the
necessary weight of lead in her keel In
wooden boats a heavily weighted keel is apt
to spring the timbers, as was the case with
the Atlantic, which leaked on that account.
Fairlie, Mr. Fyfe's birthplace. is only
about thirty miles from Ayr, and until
few years ago his father. the well-known
yacht builder, had yacht and pleasure
boat building place at Ayr
CAPTAIN BARR WILL SAIL THE NEW YACHT
The skipper of the new yacht will be
Capt Barr, who sailed the Thistle and who
made his reputation during the time he held
the tiller of the Clara.
1t may be mentioned that the Titania and
Shamrock whose sailing qualities are so
nearly alike, that after repeated trials the
question of speed supremacy has not yet
been satisfactorily settled--wcre originally
built to defend the cup in case of a challenge
by a second-class cabin cutter
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Romes Ex-Salvationist Convicted.
ROME, GA. Oct 3-Henry johnson, ~
years old, was found guilty this afternoon
in the Criminal Court OF assault with intent
TO rape "A girl aged years He was recon-
mended to the mercy of the court Johnson
hoc 81.